Month: February 2015
ScreamRide Demo Impressions | MOUSE n JOYPAD
ScreamRide Demo Impressions   Before having played the demo of ScreamRide, I really didn’t think this kind of game was for me, given that it was described as a “construction and management simulatorâ€. I hadn’t watched any trailers or gameplay videos, and had only briefly read the game’s description on Wikipedia, so I went into this with little to no bias and a fresh set of eyes. To my ...[Read More]
BLUE ESTATE REVIEW
When I first heard I would be reviewing Blue Estate, an on the rails shooter from HESAW, I immediately thought of Rambo The Video Game and the terrible time I had playing it. That game should be given to prisoners to play as part of their daily punishment, for me it was definitely something I had no desire to repeat. So, I was sceptical to say the least going into Blue Estate. Don’t get me wrong, ...[Read More]
Harold Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Harold Review   Harold seems like a rehash of certain games resembling Bit Trip Runner or Geometry Dash, but I was a little surprised to what the game had to offer. The hand-drawn animations and inspirational music score alone gives you a feeling of being part of an animated film. I thought the game mechanics would be generic, like Bit Trip Runner, by having to memorize certain patterns coming a...[Read More]
THE ESCAPISTS REVIEW
It may come as a surprise to many of you but I’ve never done hard time, and while I have watched The Shawshank Redemption a dozen times I can’t say that I have ever given much thought as to how I would escape a prison, I mean surely there would be a guard to bribe or a laundry tuck to stow away in……. In Mouldy Toof Studios’ “The Escapists” you have one easy sounding task. Escape from prison. That’...[Read More]
Neverwinter Beta Impressions | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Neverwinter Beta Impressions   Recently I spent a few days in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Neverwinter during the closed Beta stage on Xbox One. Neverwinter is an MMO that is coming to Xbox One as a free to play title from Arc Games, and having spent some hours exploring this world I can honestly say the developers are putting a lot of work into the console version of this RPG. As with al...[Read More]
Aerena: Masters Edition Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Aerena: Masters Edition Review   Upon its original release a while back, Aerena couldn’t have struck a chord with me. There’s only a handful of free-to-play games I like and I usually abhor the notion of kicking off another one such title. This has much to do with the fact that most F2P games require the player to grind some kind of resource a significant amount of time before being able to ...[Read More]
Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic Review   Pixel Heroes: Byte and Magic, developed by The Bitfather, is a 2-D, side-scrolling, rogue-like, adventure game with witty dialogue and old-school, RPG elements. The game features 30 playable characters to unlock, a handful of achievements, and endless, class combinations giving the player countless amounts of replay value. All things to consider, the game is...[Read More]
Decay: The Mare Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Decay: The Mare Review   I’ve been swamped by adventure games of all kinds these last few days. It’s not a bad thing either, to ditch the shooters and RPGs for a little while, and play games whose sole focus is to tell you a story. Gameplay takes a backseat in adventures to develop characters, settings, and storylines instead. In Decay: The Mare – characters are few and far between, but it...[Read More]
EVOLVE REVIEW
I remember watching the first ever gameplay video for Evolve and thinking, this is going to change the way we play online games forever. The concept of 4v1 matches was exciting to watch as the hunters stalked their mammoth prey across a dangerous alien landscape filled with life and man-eating plants that even David Attenborough would be proud to study. Then I spent some hours in both the Alpha an...[Read More]
Sunless Sea Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Sunless Sea Review   Sunless Sea is a unique, beautiful and utterly devastating experience at the same time. Set in the vast universe of Fallen London, you’ll be exploring the grim Unterzee with an ever-so-randomized crew at your side. It’s a top-down game in which you take direct control over your ship and sail around the dark ocean in search of interesting stories to uncover. The system is...[Read More]
Cities XXL Review | MOUSE n JOYPAD
Cities XXL Review   What gaming needs right now is a really, really good city-building sim. SimCity won’t do for obvious reasons, and it’s no wonder gamers have decided to look for their next fix elsewhere. Cities XXL promised to cater to those gamers. Before you ask – no. Those promises have not been fulfilled. Really, I could finish this review right here and now simply by stating that t...[Read More]
Talking Armored Warfare With Obsidian Entertainment | MOUSE n JOYPAD
 Talking Armored Warfare With Obsidian Entertainment   We’ve had the chance to talk to Richard Taylor, Project Director at Obsidian Entertainment about Armored Warfare – the developer’s latest project. First of all, let me say that I greatly enjoyed most of your newer titles such as Alpha Protocol and New Vegas. Looking at the games you’ve developed up until this point, it’s quite str...[Read More]